Louis Gee

Don’t know how your get one from the other. I can think that state socialist experiments were flawed, misguided, and ultimately destined for autocracy, and still think that targeting them with imperialist intervention is wrong.

Just because the US empire is evil doesn’t make everyone opposing them good. The world is not black and white.

Due to the myth of Hades and Persephone, the pomegranate is associated with the duality of life and death: https://greek.mythologyworldwide.com/the-symbolism-of-the-pomegranate-in-hades-and-persephones-story

I don’t think there’s any further link beyond a simple joke